page_title: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
section_title: High speed services
hierarchical_section_title: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur / Transportation / Trains / High speed services
caption_attribution_description: LGV, train / railroad near the Durance next to Cavaillon (84), France
context_page_description: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its prefecture is Marseille. The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese county of Nice, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur; and the southeastern part of the former French province of Dauphiné, in the French Alps. Previously known by the acronym PACA, the region adopted the name Région Sud as a commercial name or nickname in December 2017. 5,007,977 people live in the region according to the 2015 census.
  It encompasses six departments in Southeastern France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Var and Vaucluse. It is bounded to the east by the France-Italy border, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and by the Principality of Monaco, to the north by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and to the west by Occitanie, with the Rhône river marking its westernmost border.
context_section_description: The region is served by 13 high-speed trains stations and one more in the Principality of Monaco. Two stations are situated on the HSL LGV Méditerranée opened in 2001: Avignon TGV and Aix-en-Provence TGV. The others stations served by high-speed services are Avignon-Centre, Arles, Miramas, Marseille-Saint-Charles, Toulon, Les Arcs-Draguignan, Saint-Raphaël-Valescure, Cannes, Antibes, Nice-Ville and Menton.
  Services operated
  Paris GDL to Avignon-Centre / Miramas
  Paris GDL to Marseille, Toulon, Nice, Monaco and Ventimiglia (Italy)
  Nantes / Rennes to Marseille
  Strasbourg to Marseille
  Lille to Marseille
  Nancy / Metz / Dijon to Marseille / Nice
  Le Havre to Marseille
  Services operated by SNCF Ouigo:
  Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy to Marseille
  Lyon-Perrache to Marseille
  Services operated by SNCB/NMBS TGV:
  Bruxelles Midi/Brussel Zuid (Belgium) to Marseille and Nice
  Services operated by CFF Lyria:
  Genève (Switzerland) to Marseille and Nice
  Services operated by DB Alleo:
  Frankfurt am Main (Germany) to Marseille
  Services operated by Renfe AVE:
  Madrid-Atocha (Spain) to Barcelona (Spain) to Marseille
  Services operated by Eurostar:
  London Saint Pancras Int. (UK) to Ashford (UK) and Marseille
  Services operated by Thalys (seasonal):
  Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Brussel (Belgium) and Marseille
caption: TGV on the LGV Méditerranée
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